MU soccer – men stumble while Women win

LORETTO, Pa. – The seventh-ranked Monmouth University men’s soccer team dropped its first match of the 2009 season, 2-0 at Saint Francis (Pa.) on Sunday afternoon at DeGol Field. The Hawks fall to 13-1-1 overall and 5-1- 1 in the NEC, while the Red Flash improve to 6-10-1 and 2-5-1 in the league.
This afternoon’s match, which was originally scheduled for 1:00 pm, was moved back to 4:00 pm in Loretto due to poor field conditions. The Red Flash’s home soccer field, which is grass, sustained severe rain intake due to storms in the area. The match was moved to DeGol Field, SFPA’s turf football field.

WOMEN

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – In its final regular season home match, the Monmouth University women’s soccer team tied a season-high with four goals, as the Hawks posted a 4-1 victory over visiting Quinnipiac on The Great Lawn, on Sunday afternoon.

Sparked by junior Ali Kliment’s (Florence, N.J./The Pennington School) penalty kick goal, and two scores from classmate Mary Wilks (Bridgeton, N.J./Bridgeton), the Hawks improve to 11-4-1 overall and 6-1-1 in the Northeast Conference. Quinnipiac, which entered the contest tied with the Hawks for second place in the league standings, falls to 6-6-2 overall and 5-2-1 in the NEC.

above and more at gomuhawks.com

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7 Responses to MU soccer – men stumble while Women win

Can anyone clarify why the red card? Why so early in the game? Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the red card bar the player from the next game? Should make the Quinnipiac game on Sunday interesting if the Hawks can get through the next game with a back up goalie if that’s the case.

I have to say I may not be the most objective person to describe the events leading up to Sunday’s Red Card but I promise I’m trying.

What I saw was Bryan bobble a ball and go to the ground to control it, he got jostled and lost control but got the ball back. While on his back with the ball a SFU player began kicking him, Bryan retaliated by kicking the SFU player in the chest to move him off.

MU players came in and pushed the SFU players away at which time the SFU player #9 punched an MU player Referee’s rushed in to calm things, took Bryan to sideline and issued the Red Card. Minuted passed and an animated conversation between the center ref and the lineman.
after wich a Yellow Card was issued to the SFU player #9 originally involved. That’s what I saw.

The word we got was Retaliation as the reason for the red, which would be difficult to argue. I will need someone to explain the difference in severity between the Red and Yellow before I can understand the situation completly, never heard what the Yellow was issued for. How can you retaliate if there is not an original foul? Why wasn’t the original fouls called immediately?
This is a the clearest explaination I can give, in the heat of the moment there is room for lots of confusion.
I thought NEC required 2 game suspension so the clarification Tony put up here is good news. Thanks Tony!

Thanks for the explanation. I’m sure it was hard to sit there and watch that happen.

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